Page 6 of 8

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Mar 25, 2015 6:50 PM
by OcCoupe
That's fantastic Adam!!! Great job and great patience! By the way, I owe you an email.

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Mar 25, 2015 8:09 PM
by tig
Let me check...

















Yep. I'm still jealous.

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Mar 25, 2015 8:10 PM
by Karl Grau
Adam W in MN wrote:Mike is the closer guy and is the bodyshop manager and overall point of contact for my project
Mike seems like a 'hands on' kinda guy. :)
Adam W in MN wrote:100% solid and stiff?
That describes me every time I visit this thread.

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Mar 26, 2015 1:39 AM
by wkohler
This is awesome. Cannot wait to see it all painted! I'm very happy for you. Many years in the making!

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Mar 26, 2015 5:49 AM
by Jelmer538i
This is so good! Can't wait!!

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Mar 26, 2015 10:18 AM
by grahamular
Great progress and thanks for the update! :up:

-Graham

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Apr 10, 2015 4:11 PM
by Adam W in MN
I went and checked it out today. They don't have much left to do, some door reassembly and mounting the hood. The vin tags are riveted back on as well.

Image
Image
Image
Image
Image

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Apr 10, 2015 4:18 PM
by davintosh
:up:

Looking like a brand new car. Stuff like this makes me smile. :D

:popcorn:

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Apr 10, 2015 4:19 PM
by wkohler
It looks great Adam!

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Apr 10, 2015 4:59 PM
by geordi
Hot tamale! I can certainly see your heart & soul is in this restoration! :up:

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Apr 10, 2015 6:03 PM
by Karl Grau
It looks fantastic! Any luck with the Motorsports stripes?

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Apr 10, 2015 6:18 PM
by Adam W in MN
Thanks, yes another parts guy has done some recreations and I'm probably going to buy from him.

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Apr 10, 2015 7:25 PM
by tig
Image

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Apr 11, 2015 10:41 AM
by Tammer in Philly
^^^^ That

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Apr 11, 2015 2:16 PM
by Mark 88/M5 Houston
Looks great, can;t wait to see how it turns out.

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Apr 15, 2015 8:29 PM
by Dinan e28
Looking solid. Amazeballs.

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Apr 16, 2015 10:43 AM
by leadphut
Image

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Apr 16, 2015 12:21 PM
by 2 5's and a 7
To quote Paris Hilton "That's Hawt"

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Jun 05, 2015 11:48 AM
by Adam W in MN
A few minor updates, glass is in (euro E28 M5 green stripe windshield) and some of the roof gutter trim and some of the door trim is on. The parts for the brand new, rear euro bumper are shown on the rack. We used mostly new trim for the glass front and rear and the original gasket on the advice of the bodyshop and glass guy since it was in good shape. One of the corner right angle trim pieces (back window) is NLA so we reused the old one. It's not perfection, but it looks good.

Like Chris said in his E12 M535i restoration thread, it has been fairly aggravating dealing with BMW for euro specific parts and even some standard parts come in haphazardly.

I'm anxious to get the car home at this point and I'm encouraging them to finalize the door reassembly and other minor to-do's so we can wrap this up.

Image

Image

Image

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Jun 05, 2015 1:57 PM
by CYoung
Fantastic!

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Jun 05, 2015 3:57 PM
by bkbimmer
Gotta love it.

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Jun 11, 2015 1:06 PM
by MicahO
Wow - just gorgeous Adam. Inspiring to see.

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Jun 23, 2015 6:34 PM
by Adam W in MN
And we're done with phase 3. Car is home now and the owner in 2040 is inspecting the paint and bodywork!

Image

Image

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Jun 23, 2015 6:42 PM
by bkbimmer
2ishun should be the custom plate. ;)

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Jun 23, 2015 6:43 PM
by wkohler
Can't wait to see it all back together. Looks awesome.

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Jun 23, 2015 6:55 PM
by Karl Grau
It looks great! Now the real fun begins. :)

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Jun 23, 2015 8:31 PM
by davintosh
The car looks great, Adam. Do you have it put together yet?






How about now?

;)
bkbimmer wrote:2ishun should be the custom plate. ;)
That's awesome!

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Jun 23, 2015 8:43 PM
by m-racer
Brilliant job!

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Jun 23, 2015 8:52 PM
by stuartinmn
Congratulations!

Re: E12 M535i bodywork and paint journey

Posted: Jun 24, 2015 2:39 AM
by Jelmer538i
Very nice! And good that this one is white so that we have to perfect E12 M535i's in different colors to look at later on.